Transpadane Republic

The Transpadane Republic was a revolutionary government that ruled northern Italy from Milan from 15 November 1796 to 29 June 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars. After the Battle of Lodi in May 1796, the French Revolutionary Army of general Napoleon Bonaparte occupied Milan, replacing the Austrian officials with pro-France officials and instituting the French revolutionary calendar in the new client state. On 19 May 1797, the Transpadane Republic became the Cispadane Republic after Napoleon united the Transpadane Republic with the recently-conquered Republic of Venice.